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Astral weeks : a secret history of 1968
- Title
- Astral weeks : a secret history of 1968 / Ryan H. Walsh.
- Author
- Walsh, Ryan H.
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Documents the story of the creation of Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" album against a backdrop of the political and cultural turmoil of 1968 Boston, examining how other artists raised awareness about key historical events and issues.
- Subjects
- Rock music
- Morrison, Van, 1945- > Astral weeks
- Massachusetts > Boston
- Rock music > 1961-1970 > History and criticism
- Boston (Mass.) > History > 20th century
- Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D
- HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- 1900-1999
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts
- History
- HISTORY > United States > 20th Century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-344), discography (pages 344-346) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: in the beginning -- Against electricity -- God's underground newspaper -- The silver age of television -- Paul Revere is shamed: being a brief history of the Bosstown sound -- The white light underground -- Scenes from the real world -- I saw you coming from the cape -- A little more light into the darkness of man -- The noises that roar in the space between the worlds -- Something in the bricks -- We have all been astrals many times -- Epilogue: afterwards.
- Call Number
- *LE 18-2639
- ISBN
- 9780735221345
- 0735221340
- OCLC
- 1024082202
- Author
- Walsh, Ryan H., author.
- Title
- Astral weeks : a secret history of 1968 / Ryan H. Walsh.
- Publisher
- New York : Penguin Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-344), discography (pages 344-346) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- *LE 18-2639